He was to spend much effort and money in the following decades trying to have it performed successfully.

He spent the next decade trying to be a painter, without much success.

His death left a great hole that Jackson has spent three decades trying to fill.

Why had she wasted a decade trying to play the game by the old rules?

He has spent the last decade trying to put his police colleagues and members of the Muslim community at ease with one another.

Would anyone want to read the story of her later life, the one she has spent decades trying to write?

The pharmaceutical industry's lobby spent more than $900 million during the past decade trying to influence Congress to keep drug prices high.

Having lost his sword, Connor would spend decades trying to get it back.

Then he spent decades trying to build a life without ever having seen one.

Duchamp spent a decade trying to make his way as a chess professional.